"He's everything I hate about hockey players. And now he's my new roommate.
Ryder Hendricks: The most notorious playboy on campus. Infuriatingly sexy with captivating amber eyes paired with a sinfully sculpted body—and arrogant as hell, because he knows it.
Me: A wallflower future librarian whose idea of an exciting night is curling up with a good book or proofreading an essay.
Now we're living together in a house so small we can hardly turn around without bumping into each other.
And, as much as I'd love to deny it, I can hardly close my eyes without imagining his big, strong hands all over me, proving that his reputation in the bedroom is well-deserved.
Would it be so bad if I gave into temptation and crossed the line?
Ryder Hendricks may be able to break my headboard, but if I keep my guard up, there's no way he can break my heart . . . right?"
"I'm in love with my best friend's little sister.
As the star goalie of the championship-winning Hot Shots, I can have my pick of any girl on campus. Except the only one I really want. Talk about irony.
Brooke is beautiful, smart, funny—but, for me, totally off limits. Thanks to her protective older brother, she's going to stay that way. Besides, she only thinks of me as a friend.
At least, that's what I've always thought—until a scorching kiss proves me wrong.
Now, I'm sneaking around behind my best friend's back with his little sister.
It feels wrong. It feels dirty. It feels way too good to stop.
Until her brother finds out, and I'm forced to choose—my lifelong best friend, or the girl who just might be my future."
"From the brilliant Zoje Stage, Bram Stoker Award finalist and author of Baby Teeth, Something of a Calling is an unsettling look at a woman—and a world—on the brink of change. This gorgeous hardcover edition includes sprayed edges.
Detective Andy Cooper is about to retire. She isn’t sure what’s next … perhaps traveling in the RV she has yet to buy, with a dog she doesn’t currently own. Perhaps gardening near the ever-shrinking patch of woods behind her house—once the cable company’s backhoe is removed.
She’ll need to do something, if only to distract herself from how empty her life has become. After the murder of her young daughter by a drunk driver. After the divorce. After the realization that all she has is her job and that she’s about to lose that, too.
Everything changes when bodies begin to turn up. Murdered, but how? Not by knife, gun, or any obvious weapon. Instead: teeth marks. Chunks missing. Like they’d been chewed on. And not by humans.
As she’s struggling to solve her final case, an unexpected new friendship seems like just what Andy needs. Where she is detached from life, Fiona embraces it. Where she is a homebody, Fiona roams. Yet the women are drawn together by a shared love of nature and wildlife. Until Andy learns the dark truth behind Fiona’s smile. A secret that threatens to unravel the world as she knows it."
"Kissing the guy I hate was a mistake. Falling in love with him will be a catastrophe.
Since the first day of class, it was hate at first sight with Tristan River, uber-conceited hockey superstar of Ridley University. Our 'meet cute' was anything but; and when we become co-workers, things only go downhill—fast.
The backhanded remarks, condescending attitude, and cocky smirks are annoying, but I can deal.
What's harder to deal with is the crackling heat every time we pass each other; the way I lose my breath when I gaze into his grey-blue eyes; the dangerous tension that makes me feel temptation I've never known.
How can two people who hate each other keep their mutual lust from turning into a consuming flame? An enemies with benefits arrangement.
It was supposed to be a controlled burn to keep our passions from erupting into an inferno. But once I'm closer to Tristan, I discover a man no one else truly knows. I also discover a past that haunts him.
Will Tristan be able to overcome the demons that hold him back from his feelings? Or will I learn that with a man like Tristan River, love can hurt so much more than hate?"
"Foreword INDIES Bronze Medalist for Fantasy (2024)
It's amazing what the spirit can cope with to preserve the body. My spirit is a mighty oak that just won't fall.
In a fantastical aftermath of the Salem witch trials, magical women known as the Dirty have signed a contract swearing off their innate magic in exchange for freedom from violence by non-magical Freemen. Two hundred years later, in a Catskills orphanage, headmistress Whitetail has sprouted antlers—proof of a violated contract. When her wealthy benefactor visits, proposing marriage, her appearance sparks abuse. Rushing to her teacher's defense, eight-year-old Rabbit curses the Beard dead, and Whitetail's arrested on trumped-up charges.
As Whitetail awaits her trial and execution, Rabbit is groomed as the Freemen's star witness and learns of the terrifying reality to which they aspire. With her magic at stake and a loose tooth in her mouth, Rabbit has little left to lose. And a revolution to gain."
"A dead husband's secret. A dangerous imposter. When she replaces you, she takes everything.
Juliette Samson thought widowhood was her worst nightmare, but her husband's death was just the opening move in a twisted game. When a stranger shows up claiming to be her husband's real wife, Juliette discovers she's been outmaneuvered from the start.
While struggling to expose the woman as a fraud, Juliette realizes the deception has been months in the making, systematically targeting her life. And when the courts award the interloper Juliette's home along with custody of her daughter, she realizes her enemy controls everyone she once trusted. Can Juliette expose the deadly conspiracy before she loses everything?
If you like Local Woman Missing, The Push, and Good Girl, Bad Blood, then you'll love Stephanie Kreml's unputdownable account of predatory obsession.
Find out what happens when your life becomes someone else's prize."
"Before the light of dawn, you will know the fury of the dead.
Originally published in 1980 and long sought after by fans, Dennis Etchison’s novelization of John Carpenter’s The Fog is widely regarded as one of the finest novelizations ever published. Reveling in the eerie, coastal horror, Etchison transforms the classic film into a haunting work of horror literature.
A writhing icy mist pulsing with terror. It is too late to escape. Even now the people of Antonio Bay are cut off, engulfed. Along darkened streets, death searches them out. There is no sanctuary for the living. Those who are doomed will die horribly. Those who are spared will suffer the endless fear of a soul-chilling night when the dead, finally, return for revenge.
Includes an introduction on Dennis Etchison by writer Christian Francis."
"These tales tell a different truth:
slantwise and by starlight.
Award-winning and internationally bestselling author Alix E. Harrow delivers a fantastical collection of stories old and new: tales about tricksters and ghosts, ordinary magic and mundane spectacle, all in the tradition of Angela Carter, Anne Sexton and Carmen Maria Machado.
Stretching from ancient battlefields to the American freeway's neon-lit attractions, these stories are filled with tricksters, ghosts and ordinary magic. They honour the people caught in the jaws of history; women, workers, soldiers and mothers - everyone who's been shoved into the margins of the world.
Whether exploring the airless, unchanging dark of an underworld, tracking werewolves through snow-crusted mountain passes or watching a steel mill grind a community into ash, these narratives dive into mysteries that might have been. But these tales aren't tragedies. They are the triumphant stories of the ones who got away: the dissenters and rule-breakers who ran - and tossed a match behind them as they left.
This collection includes Alix's acclaimed novelette The Six Deaths of the Saint and the Hugo-Award winning story that started her career, A Witch's Guide to Escape.
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Praise for Alix E. Harrow:
'This book has everything you could possibly want'
Reese Witherspoon on Starling House
'Alix E. Harrow is an exceptional, undeniable talent'
Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of Girl Dinner
'A feat of the ages. An utter masterpiece . . . I loved every single page'
Rachel Gillig, New York Times bestselling author of One Dark Window, on The Everlasting
'I was utterly trapped in its pages - and, now free, already long to return'
Caitlin Starling, Bram Stoker Award-winner and bestselling author of The Death of Jane Lawrence, on The Everlasting
'No one writes about why we read quite like Alix E. Harrow'
Ava Reid, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning"
"TIME ONLY MAKES THE NIGHTMARE MORE REAL.
Something lives under Willa’s bed. As an adult, her fondest childhood memories are of the invisible entity under her bed who taught her how to read. Now thirty-two, Willa is a reclusive but successful painter until a bombshell news report exposes her identity as the controversial survivor of the unsolved Rapture Mystery Slayings, a small-town tragedy that splashed across headlines during her senior year of high school. Six teenagers died in the woods while Willa walked free, and everyone thinks she killed them.
When an old classmate calls about a funeral, Willa reluctantly travels to her sleepy hometown, where the possessed forest that stole her friends looms. The trees whistle for her attention, but she knows better than to listen. And the unexplained knocking from the shadows in the basement of her decaying childhood home is honestly the least of her problems.
As her past pulls her back to the place where she swore she’d never return, Willa is drawn toward the monster she left behind—and becoming the villain her hometown has always believed her to be."
"Pretending to be in love with my best friend was supposed to be easy—until I realized pretending isn't enough . . .
I'm what most people would call exceptional. For my skills on the ice, for my massive and muscle-clad frame, and, of course, for my suave British accent that makes all the American girls swoon.
And now, I have an exceptional problem. Thanks to a visa screw-up, I need to convince an immigration officer I'm engaged to an American if I want to stay in the country.
My best friend Abby, a brilliant artist with the most luscious curves I've ever laid eyes on, is the natural choice.
She'd do anything for me. I know I can trust her.
But as we spend every day together, as I struggle to keep my eyes from lingering on her, as I get used to waking up with her body warming our bed, as her laughter bouncing off the walls of our crappy apartment becomes my daily soundtrack . . . I'm not sure I can trust myself—not to fall in love, for real."
"Discussing spirituality and religion in the therapy room is increasingly accepted, some even forgetting that integration of psychology and Christianity was once a rare thing. Yet even as the decades-long integration movement has been so effective, the counselor's lived context in which integration happens grows increasingly complex. Christian practitioners need a fresh look at integration in a postmodern world.
In Embodying Integration, Megan Anna Neff and Mark McMinn provide an essential guide to becoming integrators today. Representing two generations of counselor education and practice, they model how to engage hard questions and consider how different theological views, gendered perspectives, and cultures integrate with psychology and counseling. More than focusing on resolving issues, Neff and McMinn help situate wisdom through personally engaging, diverse views and narratives.
Arising from conversations between an up-and-coming practitioner and her veteran integrator father, this book considers practical implications for the day-to-day realities of counseling and psychotherapy. Personal stories, dialogues between the coauthors, and discussion questions throughout help students, teachers, mental health professionals, and anyone interested in psychology and faith to enter―and continue―the conversation."
"“Shrewd, sage, and so darkly funny.”—Claire Lombardo, author of The Most Fun We Ever Had
From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Committee Members, a collection of wryly funny stories about ordinary women—in all their complexity, fallibility, and humanity.
An unsuspecting couple is treated to a luxury vacation by their deceased neighbor. After begrudgingly agreeing to volunteer at a nursing home, a middle school girl gambles over games of bridge with elderly residents. A single mother struggles to understand the unique bond between her autistic son and his dying grandmother. Four friends experience decades of highs and lows as pawns in The Game of Life. A professional gynecology patient runs into a high school flame while at work, undressed, on the job.
In this irreverent collection, celebrated novelist Julie Schumacher balances sorrow against laughter. Here, we experience story not only as narrative, but as syllabus and as board game. Each protagonist—ranging from girlhood to senescence—receives her own indelible voice as she navigates social blunders, generational misunderstandings, and the absurdity of the human experience. Exquisitely honest and expertly crafted, Patient, Female renders—with dark humor and wit—the foibles of human behavior and our endearing imperfections."
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